150 Years 1872-1886 The Dalles THE DECADES OF HISTORY PART TWO OF THE DALLES CHRONICLE'S TEN-PART SERIES. March 30, 2007 page 7 TO-MORROW IS AN ANNIVERSARY WE'LL NEVER FORGET ONE YEAR AFTER THE FIRE - Part Two Such a widespread destruction of property and business was of necessity a fearful blow upon all the interests of our city, and occurring in any other place of the same size on the coast, would hardly have been recovered from in a series of years, but such has not been the case in The Dalles. A cheerful spirit, notwithstanding the severity of their losses was apparent on every hand and while the ruins of their property were yet smoldering in their ashes, the business men of The Dalles were taking steps to immediately resume business. Money was borrowed, material quickly brought together, and men engaged, and within a very few hours the work of rebuilding the burnt district commenced. Those who had owned small buildings built larger and better, wooden structures in some cases being replaced with brick, and all summer the streets of our city were resounding with the sound of the saw and the hammer, and teeming with life and the work of reconstruction. A year has now passed and hardly a vestige is left to tell the stranger of the terrible ordeal through which we passed. The burnt district has been almost entirely renewed with a neater and better class of buildings than before, and in itself quite a little city, is to-day active with life and business. Such achievements in retrieving their losses are in the highest degree creditable to the sufferers from the fire, and are at once sufficient to stamp them as men of true metal, and alive with enterprise and pluck. We have all reason to be proud of such a record. In looking over the blocks that were swept by fire last May, we find the list of buildings erected since to be as follows: Main street-north side-HANDLEY & SINNOTT have erected the new Umatilla House, a solid three-story wooden building, 95x120, containing 130 sleeping rooms, with large and commodious billiard room, office, sample rooms, dining hall and kitchen, with store-rooms and wood yard, a basement, in all accommodating for 400 guests. SULLIVAN, one-story, glass front saloon. M. MATHIAS has four one-story wood, with glass fronts, one restaurant, two saloons, and one vacant. A.K. BONZEY, saloon, one-story wood, glass front. SUNSHINE fruit store, one-story wood, glass front. E. SCHANNO, two one-story glass fronts, occupied by saloon, F.G. GRUNOW'S tailor shop, and a shoe store. O.S. SAVAGE, is now building two two-story fire-proof brick stores, ware-rooms in basements, offices and rooms in second story. WM. SNYDER, two-story frame building, restaurant and lodging house. THOMAS SMITH, Cosmopolitan Hotel, with 115 feet front, three-story frame building, 90 rooms with office, bar and billiard rooms, sample rooms, dining hall, kitchen etc., accommodation for 300 guests. To Be Continued Incoming and Outgoing messages protected by Trend Micro PC-cillin program